Spanish Grand Prix April 27th

No one is really making manual starts are they, yes there is no tc etc but teams have different settings for the engines and ferrari have 2 cluches on the steering wheel 1 for the start and 1 normal 1. Most teams are fine tuning the start setting to limit wheel spin.

I really thought it would be like the old days I was so wrong.

I did say it would be nothing like the old smoky-slidey starts back in pre-season.

Yep.

And tbh its complete crap what teams are doing. There should be no 2nd clutch and all that a lot of drivers have to do is keep the revs down and let the clutch up, its all bloody pre set.

It's not the teams fault. If they can get a more efficient start within the regulations, then they're going to. They're not going to sacrifice a row or 2 just so the fans get to see 3 tenths of a second of smoke.

If that's what was wanted, then the regulation needs to come from above with the banning of in-car controllable engine maps and so on (not something I'm against).

To be fair, we've not had tyre smoke on starts, save for a few a bit over-zealous on the throttle , for a good decade+ now. It's not really anything to do with traction or launch control.

I always light a ciggie for the start. Smoke guaranteed.

hahahahahahahahhaha

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/10/2008 01:23PM by DaveEllis.